Charles perley



UNITED STATES PATENT! OFFICE.

CHARLES PERLEY, OF NEXV YORK, N. Y.

DIRECT ANI) COUNTER MOTION WINCH.

Specicaton forming part of Letters Patent No. 6,480, dated May 29, 1849;Ressued Mayl,

V 1861, No. 1,188.

To all 'whom it may concern Be it known that I, `CHARLES PERLEY, of thecity and county of New York, State of NewYork, machinist,v have inventedand made and applied to use certain new and useful improvements in theconstruction of winch-heads for nautical and mechanical uses, suchimprovements effecting the purposes of making Winches more generally andpermanently useful, on shipboard by constructing them with facilitiesfor dispensing with the movable crank now generally used and for placingWinches in situations where they cannot now be so well placed, but wherethey will be more locally useful, as turning effectively either way ontheir shaft, more protected from accidental injury, more safe in use tothe crew of a ship, and in situations where the common crank cannot nowbe effectively used, if at all, for which improvements I seek LettersPatent of the United States, and that the said' improvements and themode of constructing and using the same are fully and substantially setforth and shown in the following description and in the drawing annexedto and making part of this specification, wherein- Figure 1, is a frontelevation, of my improved winch-head as in place for use. Fig. 2, is avertical sectional elevation through the center of the winch, and Fig.3, is an elevation of the winch cap and pawls as seen from the interiorthrough the line A, B, of Fig. 2.

The same letters and numbers as marks of reference, apply alike to thesame parts in each gure.

b, is the shaft of the winch having a round part on which the winchrotates, and a square stock piece 1 to x into a bitt or timber head orstanchion a, in any part of the ship, or the shaft may be a prolongationof the ships windlass shaft outside the head of the windlass, thusplacing a winch in or on any part of the ship where it can be needed, 2,is a two part journal box on the inner end of the shaft, made to fit onthe shaft, with the larger diameter against the bitt, or other part towhich the shaft is attached and the smaller diameter fitted to a socketin the larger end of the winch head c,- with a A key to make the box andhead rotate together, 3, is a single journal box on the shaft at thesmallest end of the winch head. By this construction of the boxes 2,

and 3, a broken winch head can be removed, and a new one slipped on,Without removing the shaft, and the winch head may eitherbe fitted withwhelps or not. At the larger end the winch barrel c, is fitted .withratchet teeth 4, and a stop pawl 5, which may be bolted to whatever thewinch itself iscarried by, the ratchet teeth being made alikeon eachside atanangle of 150, with the radial line the pawl is tted'on a pin6,.to act on` either side of its own center, and take the ratchet teethin whatever direction the winch head is worked. On the outer or smallerend of the winch head, a ring flanch cast solidwith the head has on theinside edge a set of teeth 13, forming a female ratchet wheel, inclosedby a cap or movable cover d. This has a boss that sets against the outerjournal box 3, and within the edge is an interrupted ring flanch,between one part of this and the boss a hollow block or plate forms alodgment for the eyes and pins 11, 11, of two pawls 9 and l0, that areso set and hung, as to take the teeth of the female ratchet 13, one pawlonly, operating in the direction of the rotation given, the other pawlhanging loose, until the cap is moved with the socket on the oppositeside, and the stop pawl 5, changed when the winch will be turned theopposite way.

A washer and pin 8, on the outer point of the shaft b, secures all theparts 1n place leaving them easily accessible for repair if needed. Thecap d, is swelled out and extended so as to form a socket 7 into whichone end of a handspike or capstan bar, is to be inserted as a lever. Onraising this in either direction, one of the pawls 9 or 10, overruns theteeth 18, the other hanging clear of contact against a stop 12, and ondepressing the lever and socket 7, the point of the one pawl 9, or 10,takes the teeth 13,A and forces the winch around, by an intermittent butpowerful motion, by which a rope or chain wound around may be hove tautfor any required purpose and when not in use the socket 7, hangs withthe mouth downward, occupying but little more room than the winch headand out of the risk Vof accidental injury.

The shifting crank ordinarily used with a winch, on board ships isliable to injury by breakage, is frequently lost when wanted, oftenslips from the nose of the shaft when in use, and causes accidents tothe crew, be-

sides taking so much room in use that it must have a full swayall'around, both Ways of the bitt, or standard that carries the Winch,so that the crank cannot be operated in many parts of the ship, Where aWinch would save a dead haul on the arms of the creW. By theconstructive arrangement above set forth and shown, all theseinconveniences are avoided, the Winch is always ready for use, by ahandspike, in any corner Where there is room to place it, and a mooringrope to a Wharf, a halliard, or sheet or tackle fall taken, from eitherdirection of the Winch, may be easily and quickly hove taut, by a evvmen With this construction, of Winch and the heavy labor of a greaternumber relieved.

I do not claim to have invented a Winch head, or any of the parts hereindescribed and shown, irrespective of the manner in Which I have appliedand used them. But

I do claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates- The application of the female ratchet 13, conjointly Withthemechanical arrangement of the head or cap d, with the tWo reversingpaWls 9 and 10, and lever socket 7 to produce a Winch, that shall beWorked by a handspike or lever, moving in either direction on the Winchcenter, for the purposes and substantially in the manner beforedescribed.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature this ninth dayof February o-ne thousand eight hundred and forty eight.

CHARLES PERLEY.

Vitnesses Gmo. W. REID,

LEMUEL W. SERRELL.

[FIRST PRITED 1913.]

